Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Authors

• Nīlakaṇṭha, active 17th century

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9968108393503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/931736063
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6810839

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Language

Summary

Manuscript is a collection of Hindu laws (dharma) focusing on especially gift giving and other rites and ceremonies (example, fire sacrifice or agnihotra). Manuscript is incomplete.

Notes

• Title from internal colophon (f. 10r); alternate title supplied by cataloger.
   
• Written in 9-12 lines per leaf.
   
• 33 leaves foliated 1-33, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Internal colophon: iti śrībhaṭṭaśaṃkarātmajanīlakaṃṭhakṛte dānaparibhāṣāprayogaḥ (f. 10r).
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double black line.
   

Extent

Support

Subjects topical

• Dharma
• Hindu law
• Rites and ceremonies--India
• Gifts--Religious aspects--Hinduism
• Agnihotra (Hindu rite)

Genres

• Manuals (instructional materials)
• Treatises
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century
• Manuscripts--India--18th century
• Manuscripts--India--19th century

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